Events & Workshops

Book Bytes is a lunchtime online reading series celebrating the work of Saskatchewan writers of diverse genres, identities, and experience levels. Events this year will run on September 18 and September 25 via Zoom.

 

Please be mindful of your time zone as all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

 

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q_E6UjA7T8-EDMmqkX4n4g

 

This event will be recorded and uploaded as an unlisted video (meaning that only registered participants will be able to access the video, or sent by request) available for 30 days on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw

 

The Guild is fortunate to have the support of our major funders who make events like this possible: Sask Lotteries in proud partnership with SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Regina. 

 

September 25, 2024 Readings By:

Carol Kavanagh

Alanna Vane

Becky Zimmer

Host: Julie Yu

 

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Carol Kavanagh has attended university fiction and poetry classes, the SWG mentorship program, workshops, and retreats and has utilized the Writer-in-Residence program at the Saskatoon public library many times. She is grateful to the Saskatchewan Arts Board for assistance in some of those endeavours. She holds an Hon. B.A. in English and an M.Ed. (Psych). She has had poetry, non-fiction and short stories published, most notably in Grain and The Antagonist Review. She is working on a novel and is delighted to have an editor. She lives in Saskatoon with her husband.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Practically born with a pen and camera in either hand, there has never been a time when Becky Zimmer didn't want to capture the world around her. Now as a freelance journalist and photographer, she has spent nearly a decade covering prairie news, the effects of provincial and national government policies on rural Canada, civic politics, and community living for a variety of local and farm media outlets. She works from her home office in a little yellow house surrounded by plants, books, photos, and music. She has numerous projects on the go, including her fight for rural news in Saskatchewan, a collection of creative nonfiction essays about her travels, a fantasy novel, and a collection of children’s books about her travelling moose.

 

 

 

 

 

Alanna Vane often wishes the muse had visited someone else with the story for “The Stones Will Sing,” but she knew it had to be written regardless of what she lacked (you don’t quarrel with the muse). When she's not falling asleep on her computer keyboard while writing her next fantasy about the magic of music, she's reading stories to her five kids or teaching piano to a gaggle of students who don't dare to protest that music is boring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Yu resides in Saskatoon with her family. Her background includes studying and photographing rural Chinese restaurants on the prairies. She volunteers extensively with the Chinese senior community and with newcomers to Saskatoon. Julie has had a passion for reading from a young age and now enjoys collecting multicultural children's literature and rural community cookbooks.

 

 

 

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